Solution Architect - Applications (Chief Architect's Office)

Position Overview

The Solutions Architect designs and develops architecture solutions to meet business requirements. He/She applies highly developed specialist knowledge and skills to analyse the functionality and constraints of recommended architecture solutions across multiple systems, platforms and applications. He/She manages high level design options and applies architectural principles to ensure that the most appropriate design choices are made. He/She ensures that technical standards, including software coding standards, tools and platform standards are complied with.

He/She collaborates with key stakeholders to ensure product-market fit. He/She adopts an analytical approach in developing innovative solutions to meet business requirements. He enjoys working in a team setting to implement solutions effectively.

Role & Responsibilities

Understand business requirements:

• Liaise with clients to determine requirements and define the scope of a project.
• Develop an understanding of the client's system specifications, work practices and the nature of business.
• Understand the enterprise architecture.

Design the solution architecture:

• Develop a solution design that fulfils the business requirements and aligns with the enterprise architecture.
• Perform systems modelling, simulation, and analysis to ensure the soundness of the solution.
• Analyse the impact of a solution on the client’s overall business processes and systems to mitigate business risks.
• Recommend adoption of new technologies and applications to optimise solutions.

Implement Solution:

• Develop technical roadmaps for solutions implementations.
• Assist delivery team in the end-to-end technical testing and implementation of solutions.
• Support risk identification and development of risk mitigation strategies associated with the solution implementation.
• Foster continuous improvements in the design processes, models and approach.
• Review prototypes, solution blueprints, and project scope to ensure that business requirements are being met.
• Support the analysis of the functionality and constraints of recommended solutions/changes across multiple systems/platforms/applications.
• Drive compatibility, interoperability, stability and usability of recommended solution architecture.
• Support clients to resolve technical issues.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years as an architect, and at least 15 years of experience in implementing IT systems.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web-based architectures, integration methods and strategies to support non-functional requirements such as resilience and performance. Skills and experience in health IT systems, HL7 and FHIR would be valuable, but not a must.
• For Digital Services architect, you will be building close relationships and providing technical leadership on the commercial clouds such as AWS to the project teams including architects and engineers from in-house engineering teams. Communicate cloud platform products and services effectively to stakeholders and other architects to ensure a secure and scalable approach is realised. Experience in micro-services, DevOps tools and methodologies, containers technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, server-less architecture, and implementation in commercial cloud is highly preferred.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics.